bowie it is see this you get the proper recognition is having really seen this whole thing coming and actually cashed out of the last possible moment this is maybe ten or twelve years ago your thoughts yeah i think he's definitely he's of the right mindset and you know i can't stress enough how in my opinion you know things it's a cataclysmic change right now you know everything's falling apart but for the musicians and for the fans it's a good thing you know it's kind of a year zero situation where everything is going away and we're going to start from scratch and you know the important thing is that is that it's a it's a changing situation and it changes all the time obviously social media has a has a huge part of it you know anything that pretty much connects you know the musicians and the fan base is you know is the is the future let's talk about copyright for a second because at the heart of this debate of course is the copyright debate now to frame this debate let me give some postage of the argument here on one side the labels and the copyright cards out trying to extend copyri

how cool is david bowie? >> 65 years old, david bowie. >> is that right. >> he can finally get a free bus pass in london. he's the one guy, if you look alt of the rock stars, he's the one guy who has remained ice cool. to his brand, it's as cool today as it was in the '70s. >> some kids don't even know who david bowie is now, and when they hear him, they go, oh, yeah. >> he knew when to stop performing. ziggy stardust in the '70s and all of the reinventions he went through. he was saying around 2000, he last performed. >> the vision tour, yeah. >> it's to give up when they want you back on the stage. >> you have to get off the stage if people want you back on stage. right now, he could have a giant comeback. i think he's working on a book. he's got to be working on something. >> can i e-mail you? >> no. really? i can't e-mail you? >> you can go through my publicist. by the way, there's a guy on saturday night live, a great, great cast member. taryn killm. he does an impression of you. it hasn't been on air ye

bowie saw the writing on the wall and he sold forward all of his catalog for cash up front fifty million dollars or so i think it's dissipated that the catalog value would be shrinking as you know the internet became huge and he also told the industry that look the musicians will adapt their creative they'll always make money you guys the labels are in trouble and so david bowie see this you get the proper recognition is having really seen this whole thing coming and actually cashed out of the last possible moment this is maybe ten or twelve years ago your thoughts yeah i think he's definitely he's in the right mindset and you know i can't stress enough how in my opinion you know things that it's a cataclysmic change right now you know everything's falling apart but for the musicians and for the fans it's a good thing you know it's kind of a year zero situation where everything is going away and we're going to start from scratch and you know the important thing is it is that it's a it's a changing situation and it changes all the time obviously social media has a has a huge part of it yo

david jones adopted the name david bowie in the late '60s and hits and grammys soon followed. >>> one hour special day more s calendar. the african national congress turned 100 years old this weekend. former president nelson mandela we're told will not attend the festivities due to his failing health. >>> a thrilling tourist adventure goes horribly wrong. could have been worse, though. this is erin worth, a tourist from australia, plunging toward the river right there. oh, my gosh. and then the cord of that bungee breaks. watch the cord, one more time there. she falls to the water below, 300 feet, and amazingly, she actually survives that. >> it wasn't black straightaway and i felt like i had been slapped all over. i had to swim down and yank the bungee cord out of whatever it was caught under. i think it is a miracle i survived. >> it turns out the cord broke at just the perfect moment if there is a perfect moment. she avoided serious injury because it broke when she was already so close to the surface of the water. she's bruised pretty badly. that river is known for being filled wit

happy birthday, david bowie. and how about a comeback tour? that sure would be nice. >>> up next -- must see television. my no talking points segment. tonight's subject, the gop candidate and black people. and . and it's very physically demanding. if i'm sore i'm not at my best. advil is my go-to. it's my number one pain reliever. [ male announcer ] make the switch. take action. take advil. >>> it is time now for no talking points. >> tonight's segment is about that very uncomfortable subject for many. especially the gop presidential candidates. black people. first the question for you. what exactly is a blah person? don't think about it too much. let's hear rick santorum use it in a sentence. >> i don't want to make blah people's lives better by giving them somebody else's money. i want to give them the opportunity to go out and turn them money. >> well, to just about everybody it sounds like he said black people, but he walked it back in a cnn interview. >> i looked at the video and i don't -- in fact, i'm pretty confident i didn't say black

david bowie was bisexual, and that was part of his appeal. and david bowie's wife told me that she found he and mick in bed together. and it's interesting when you look back from this part where we have sir mick jagger, he wasn't that. you know, he built his fame and his wealth and his iconic status on being an enemy of the establishment. and that's what got him in trouble with the queen, for example. >> the fact that he slept with both men and women is almost the understory to who some of those men and women were. >> yes. >> in your book, you have a ton of amazing names here. eric clapton. david bowie. uma thurman. madonna. >> madonna was a groupie in the early '80s. and just recently, madonna chose mick's daughter as the face of her material girl clothing line. so the connection goes on. >> i'm more stunned by the fact that he went to the london school of economics. and you describe him as a financial wizard overseeing his $400 million financial holdings. >> right. those are his personal holdings. and he is also in charge of the minimum $2